When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIREThe human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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